The Saltire Awards are 75 years old and the most prestigious awards in Scotland. We are delighted to have won having
been shortlisted for the Japanese House in 2010.
Congratulations to the builder Watson & Lyall who were there to pick up the award and the structural engineer
Tall Engineers.

Kieran wrote to the AJ about the Doolan RIAS best building in Scotland Prize and was published as letter of the week. We are looking forward to an
honorary AJ china mug in the post!

26/10/2011

We spent two week in France over the summer with our friend Frances Doherty, she "encourgaed" me into making a cermaic tile (all her guests do) and has now posted it
on her pottery blog. Mine is a maquette of the entry sequence to our Fermanagh house.

Frances makes incredible ceramic sculptures (see her blue bells for example) which are a hand made version of biomimicry | parametricism. The sculptural repetition has an architectural power that I am trying to
find a way of using on a building scale.

24/10/2011
Just back from an extraordinary week visiting Sutherland (the far North West of Scotland) we had never been before and were overawed by the landscape. Really want to work in this area - so if you have a project let us know!

22/08/2011
Konishi Gaffney architects presented on Saturday evening to the community and 6 judges in Kilcreggan village hall, we had expected 15-20 people so were pleased and surprised to see a packed hall. We were very pleased to have won from a large number of
entrants (the shortlist was 6 from 56) and look forward to working with a very intelligent (and forthright) community lead by the Rosneath Peninsula West Community Development Trust.

This image of proposed beach and pool in the bay, located on the Highland boundary fault line.

22/06/2011
At the summer soltice it's hard to remember what noon on January 2nd looked like. Here it is, when we visited the new site for a house in Fermanagh. The house we designed,
under wraps for now, is currently in for planning which is an interminably long process in Northern Ireland.

10/06/2011
ScotLarch cladding at the listed Trinity House.

07/06/2011Art of Leith Exhibition opens

03/06/2011
Shortlisted for a second Saltire Housing award in a row for our tiny Bath Street Window project.
The last set of Judges from the EAA didn't visit in the end which was very disappointing.

27/05/2011Art of Leith Exhibition poster uses our Fermanagh House image.
Please come along to the exhibition and to the Open Studios day.

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14/03/2011 Matsushima tsunami update
Matsushima where we lived for three years appears largely to have missed the main tsunami demolition. Aerial photo montage post-tsunami 14th March 2011.
CLICK HERE for very large image (may take a few minutes)

04/02/2011
In Tokyo for three weeks (as Thomas Heatherwick would say "on a research trip").
Met and interveiwed architect Kengo Kuma today for a magazine article about
his brilliant competition winning project for the V&A in Dundee.